{"id":938,"date":"2022-12-29T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=938"},"modified":"2022-12-29T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T00:20:05","slug":"vrvana-vr-start-up-creating-the-totem-headset-acquired-by-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Vrvana VR start-up creating the Totem headset acquired by Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>In 2014 there was another VR start-up that looked highly promising called True Player Gear which was eventually renamed to Vrvana.\u00a0Vrvana were working on their own VR headset called the Totem and it looked highly promising.<\/p>\n<p>Today it\u2019s been revealed that the Canadian start-up has been acquired by Apple for around 30M according to TechCrunch. The Totem was set to go up against the main\u00a0VR players and when we spoke to CEO Bertrand Nepveu in 2014 he wasn\u2019t concerned about the competition and was prepared to push it into a Kickstarter which he did\u00a0in September 2014 but the Kickstarter was canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Since then,\u00a0Vrvana has been rather quiet about the Totem and it never actually shipped despite receiving positive feedback from those who had the opportunity to test the rough prototypes.\u00a0Vrvana has spent time perfecting their AR\/VR technology and that is what will have attracted Apple to the start-up. Vrvana appeared to be moving away from the gaming market, and an indication of this was on their site where they are keen to point out that the \u201cTotem\u2019s hand tracking and inside-out positional tracking empowers your workforce to manipulate virtual objects with their hands wherever they please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Vrvana site is still live showing off the Totem which does have impressive specs such as 1440p low persistence OLED, 120 degree FOV, and a camera passthrough for AR. With Apple now taking control of Vrvana, the Totem is unlikely\u00a0to ever appear which is a real\u00a0shame. Apple could have simply made this\u00a0acquisition to acquire their talent because we there is no indication of what Apple will eventually do with the tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 there was another VR start-up that looked highly promising called True Player Gear which was eventually renamed to Vrvana.\u00a0Vrvana were working on their own VR headset called the Totem and it looked highly promising. Today it\u2019s been revealed that the Canadian start-up has been acquired by Apple for around 30M according to TechCrunch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1186,555,1187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}